Plaintiff's counsel said the key to winning was his retaining medical experts who compared plaintiff's pre- and post-accident MRIs and also had firsthand reports of the physical examinations — as opposed to defendants’ expert, a radiologist who focused only on the MRIs.

Employment law experts say every business, whether it’s a multinational corporation, a five-person law firm or something in between, should have a written policy covering snow days, emergency days and disaster contingencies.

The bill to make State Bar of Michigan membership voluntary has some attorneys and the SBM itself a bit on edge, wondering whether it could gain momentum and be fast-tracked like other recent legislation involving the state’s judiciary.

A lawyer can collect more than $116,000 in unpaid fees because the client agreed to the amount due by previously making some payments and not objecting to the bills he received, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.